FLAC files stored locally dropping out on Sonos

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I have to ask this question again. Why is it the performance of Sonos in playing FLAC files has waned over the last couple of years since Sonos preoccupation with being all things to everyone i.e. streaming from every possible source, 5.1 etc. Despite having the matrix I have attached speakers drop out especially one side of stereo pairs. Whenever I skip to the next track speakers drop out and slowly synch up again. Does not happen on MP3s with their lower bitrate. Those of us who were early adopters can remember that Sonos was supposed to have the ability to play 32 speakers with multiple music streams in different rooms. The S2 app takes an age to load on a fast laptop. Changing volume settings can now have a delay as others mentioned. Has some of the memory capacity that used to be available been used for the new features. Don't forget the original system was just designed to play music from local sources and a bit of Internet Radio. Perceived reliability has really begun to suffer as witnessed by a lot of disillusioned contributers on this site. I may sound crass to say this but if I could go back about 30 upgrades to the old blue controller I would do so. Sonos is taking my system in a direction I appear to have little or no control over.

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ninjabobAuthor

Chromatic Producer I

And a really weird feature is that your kitchen left speaker is getting its stream from the Boost, whereas the right one is getting its stream from the living room left speaker.

That’s the STP topology. In practice the kitchen right will get stream data from the kitchen left, via Direct Routing.

Am I missing something or is the Kitchen Right not getting the stream from Living Room L which is very marginally further away than the Boost?

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ratty

And a really weird feature is that your kitchen left speaker is getting its stream from the Boost, whereas the right one is getting its stream from the living room left speaker.

That’s the STP topology. In practice the kitchen right will get stream data from the kitchen left, via Direct Routing.

Am I missing something or is the Kitchen Right not getting the stream from Living Room L which is very marginally further away than the Boost?

Direct Routing links don’t show in the matrix. They’re used, where possible, directly between grouped nodes to optimise performance. A pair is a type of group. Direct Routing only applies to the audio stream within a group, i.e. between the Group Coordinator and the other nodes; all other traffic uses the STP topology in the matrix.

BTW SonosNet tries to minimise the number of hops, but the Boost/kitchen-left direct signal strength is rather low. The mesh should self-adjust automatically if it needs to, but you can always reboot say the Boost and the kitchen units to force a topology recalculation.

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John B

Is the Boost close to the living room speakers? Is there a gap of at least a couple of feet between router and Boost? What channels are your router and SonosNet on?

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John B

Thanks @ratty. I forgot that direct routing could override the STP in ‘groups’, including stereo pairs.

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ninjabobAuthor

Chromatic Producer I

Is the Boost close to the living room speakers? Is there a gap of at least a couple of feet between router and Boost? What channels are your router and SonosNet on?

Yes Boost is a few feet from Living Room Left speaker but at least a three feet away from Router. Router on 6 Sonos on 1 (the clearest channel). All of my computer equipment and mobiles/tablets are connected by 5ghz, only smart switches and one CCTV camera on 2.4Ghz.

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ratty

Router on 6

20MHz channel width?

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ninjabobAuthor

Chromatic Producer I

As you can see the Matrix can change hour by hour!!